Blogs and Publications in EEI

Find listed below blogs, publications and other outputs from members of the Education Equity Initiative Team

Blogs

Decolonising in Practice - ReOrientations, Critical Muslim Studies, August 2025

How to balance tension in interdisciplinary teaching and learning, Times Higher Education Campus, February 2025.

School suspensions are on the rise secondary schools can tackle this by creating a sense of belonging, The Conversation,

Greany, T., & Pennacchia, J. (2024, March 18). What does inclusion look like in practice today? Schools Week. 

Podcast special: Writing for Wonkhe, Wonkhe, December, 2024.

Have elite universities contributed to broken Britain?, Wonkhe, December, 2024.

Paris 2024: Hijab Ban Undermines Gender Equality Milestone – Social Sciences Birmingham (bham.ac.uk) Sept., 2024

AI and Democracy: A threat or an opportunity?, Social Sciences Birmingham, May, 2024.

Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 2000s, Wonkhe, June, 2024.

Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1980s, Wonkhe, June, 2024.

Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1960s, Wonkhe, May, 2024.

How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945, Wonkhe, April, 2024.

Peruzzo, F. (June 2024). UK General Election: How to fix a broken system – Starting points for an equitable and inclusive education system in England under a new government. SEN Policy Research Forum

What does the tertiary turn in higher education policy mean in practice?
WONKHE. 12 December 2023

Who gets a say in the future direction of AI?
Social Sciences Birmingham. 2 November 2023

True crime drama and creative co-production research: the art and social science of narrative
Soci4

Why we need a standing commission to break the deadlock in higher education
Academy of Social Sciences. September 2023

How 25 years of education policy led us to believe we can only succeed in life with a degree
The Conversation. 8 August 2023

Ending Educational Inequities: Learning from the pandemic to interrupt educational exclusions and foster inclusive educational communities
Living Places Publishing. 13 June 2023

Drive for change
ResearchProfessional News. 22 January 2023

A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging
BERA Blog Special Series. 13 January 2023

It's time to make English higher education institutions accessible: disabled student representatives lead the way to change. Higher Education Policy Institute. January 2023

Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge
Society for Research into Higher Education. 18 November 2022

The future of the university as a network
British Educational Research Association. 26 August 2022

Catalyst for collaboration
ResearchProfessional News. 26 June 2022

Lift, don’t limit
Research Professional. 27 February 2022

Can a “geography-blind” market in English higher education deliver “levelling up”?
Academy of Social Sciences

Publications

Books

Articles

Peruzzo, F. (2025). The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice: By Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2024, $40 (paperback), ISBN: 9780262547529 (Also available Open Access). British Journal of Sociology of Education, 46(4), 569–573.

Peruzzo, F. and Spanò, E. (2025). Foucault, Decolonial Thinking and Critical Leadership Studies in Education: Expanding the Epistemic and Ontological Toolbox. In R. Niesche and D. Mifsud (Eds.) Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges. London: Bloomsbury, Chapter 4, pp. 111-138

Grimaldi, E., Peruzzo, F. and Ball, S. J. (2025). The Italian Ed-Tech market in the making. Education Policy Archives

Pennacchia, J., Axler, M., King, S., & Clapham, A. (2025). Choice and diversity in governance in the English alternative provision sector: Implications for educational equity. British Educational Research Journal, 51(3), 1991-2012.

Johnston, C, Malcolm, A & Pennacchia, J 2024, 'How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice', International Journal of Inclusive Education. 

Pennacchia, J. (2024). Exclusionary tactics in English secondary education: An analysis of fair access protocols. Journal of Education Policy, 39(3), 321–342.

Millward, C 2024, 'Improving, but not equalising opportunity: the objective and effect of regulating fair access to higher education in England, and their implications for understanding higher education policy ', Oxford Review of Education, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 148-166.

Allan, J & Harwood, V 2023, 'Approaching the self: alternative perspectives of selfwork in education', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

Millward, C 2023, 'Balancing the incentives in English higher education: the imperative to strengthen civic influence for levelling up*', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2219664

Nieminen, JH, Bagger, A & Allan, J 2023, 'Discourses of risk and hope in research on mathematical learning difficulties', Educational Studies in Mathematics, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 337-357.

Bathmaker, A; & Pennacchia, J. (2023). Who governs and why it matters. An analysis of race equality and diversity in the composition of further education college governing bodies across the UK, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 75(1), pp. 24-42.

Matthews, A & Kotzee, B 2022, 'Bundled or unbundled? A multi‐text corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 578-597.

Millward, C & Martin, J 2022, 'Community comprehensive education: an effective way forward for everyone', Forum: for promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 159-175. 

Allan, J & Omarova, T 2022, 'Disability and inclusion in Kazakhstan', Disability and Society, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1067-1084. 

Raaper, R, Peruzzo, F & Westander, M 2022, 'Disabled students doing activism: borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education', Power and Education

Ireland, A, Pennacchia, J, Watson, C & Bathmaker, A-M 2022, 'How is the role of student governor understood in further education colleges in the UK?', Journal of Further and Higher Education, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 561-573.

Peruzzo, F, Grimaldi, E, Arienzo, A, D’onofrio, G, Franchi, C & Sebastianelli, P 2022, 'New public management reforms and industrial relations in the Italian education system: A cultural political economy approach', Journal of Educational Administration and History. 

Chapters

Chapters (peer-reviewed)

Jørgensen, CR & Allan, J 2022, Free schools, inclusion and social capital of children with special educational needs and disabilities. in C Kulz, K Morrin & R McGinity (eds), Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Qualitative and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 89-108.

Pennacchia, J. (2022). Producing the academy school: Ethnography, Foucault and the study of policy production In Kulz, C; Morrin, K; and McGinity, R (eds). Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment: Manchester University Press.

 

Chapter

Peruzzo, F 2023, A Certain Kind of Freedom, a Certain Subject of Right: The Disability dispositif of Inclusion and the Government of the Disabled Child in the Italian Education System. in The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability. 1 edn, Routledge. 

Allan, J 2022, Disability Studies, Disability Arts and Students' Perspectives: New Critical Tools for Inclusive Education. in B Amrhein & S Naraian (eds), Reading Inclusion Divergently: Articulations from Around the World. International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, vol. 19, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 63-74. 

Allan, J 2022, Foucault and his acolytes: Discourse, power and ethics. in M Murphy (ed.), Social Theory and Education Research: Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida. 2nd edn, Routledge, pp. 47-

Reports

Commissioned report

McGimpsey, I, Bowden, H & Sutton, J 2024, Becoming evidence informed about residential care. University of Birmingham

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Migliarini, V, Allan, J, Van Hove , G & De Schauwer , E 2022, Legislation and Policy in Europe. in R Tierney, F Rizvi & K Ercikan (eds), International Encyclopedia of Education. 4th edn, Elsevier, pp. 58-67. 

Other reports

Sobo-Allen L., Ambrose, Crawford, C., McGimpsey, I., Millward, C. (2025) Research Evaluation of ICET Head Start into Higher Education Programme

Green, A, Millward, C & Taylor, A 2022, How can universities, colleges and employers deliver the skills needed for levelling up? University of Birmingham.